I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Nature is our chapel.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

It takes a truly great man to see that he’s been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.